no, I'll leave the wings as they are. Some center lines are picked out though, but not all. And I definately don't have the patience to paint fine lines on each feather for the structure.
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offtopic now: recipe. Extremely easy to do (except 1 part, but that doesn't affect the taste)
you need: 400g white chocolate (I bought 4 100g bars, 1€ each), 25g butter, 125ml (heavy) whipping cream (I used 12% coffee cream), about 25g Matcha (the most expensive part, 100g pack costed 22€, so whole pack is enough for about 1.6kg-s).
- chop the chocolate to small pieces (if you use white chocolate pellets you don't have to do this) and put about 3/4 of it to a bowl. btw this is time consuming, for me it took about 45 minutes to do. The smaller the pieces the easier they melt
- heat up the cream, until it just begins to boil, then quickly pour it on the chocolate add butter too
- stir until it dissolves
- now add the tea powder (I used a strainer to avoid lumps ), then mix it more until uniform in color
- now the only tricky part if you are like me and don't have instuments for chocolate making as you'd have to guess the right time. wait a bit to cool and harden, then when it's about 28C (80-83F) add the remaining 1/4 chocolate (they will form the seeds for the hardening process) and stir until smooth again (this will be hard!, at this temperature it doesn't want to dissolve easily, so quite a bit of elbow work).
This is partly the tempering process, that makes the chocolate harder, so it doesn't melt at room temperature. But for a perfect one you'd need extra things and steps I didn't have, so while it keeps it's form, it's not as rigid as the original bars were.
- pour it to a container with baking paper(or plastic wrapper, works too) in it and leave it in the fridge for 4-5 hours. Do NOT wash the mixing bowl before you ate what's left in it.
optional part:
- after you take it out from the fridge, dust it with another 20-25g of grean tea. I felt it's a waste to do, so I didn't do it.
Only problem with this: because the slight bitterness of the tea you don't feel it as sweet as it is and it tastes great, so if you are not cautious you'll eat the whole 400g before realizing it.
And it doesn't matter how you look at it, it's basically 400+g of sugar and fat.
I just love it (altough it's not cheap because of the needed green tea type (macha))
